Installed EM13 decoder in IR ISHIKWA 521 Series Kato 10-1507

 I finally got my order from Plaza Japan that included several decoders some vehicles and other goodies. First thing that I wanted to do was put a decoder in my IR Railways Series 521. As usual I couldn't find a tutorial for the instructions for installing a decoder in 5his car. Thank goodness that the installation is pretty standard and easy. 

• Remove the grey plastic box on the bottom of the train.
• Then remove the truck don't lose that drive rod. 
• Take the decoder a flip it so the black chip is facing up then slide it in underneath the copper strip.
• Reinstall the truck making sure you get the rod into the flywheel properly.
• Put the grey box back on the EMU
• You're done.

Cover on EMU

Cover off EMU

Truck removed EMU

No truck or cover

Decoder installed

Decoder installed and truck installed

Talk about foreshadowing lol

 I was looking around and I found some BLMA concrete car stops and I was on eBay the other day wondering if I should buy some or not Im glad I didnt lol. This is exactly what I need for the parking lot that Im working on. 

Working on the Koban and parking lot

Well dont I have enough projects going lol. I wanted to add a parking lot to the Koban I just built and here are some mockups of the lot and the building. 

I think I'm liking the first 3 mockups out of all the ones that I've tried. 

A litle progress on the DCC-EX Command station

Today I got some new items in like the Barrel Connector and some Dupont Connectors (not pictured) 

I wired up the barrel connector and installed some wire for the programming track and the main track.

Documentation on how to wire up the command station werent that clear so I went looking for some reference pictures. 

Below is the result of my wiring. 

Cheap WiFi Throttles?

While on sScale,net I posted in the DCC section someone their homemade DCC WiFi throttle. TCS makes a WiFi throttle that costs $200 the homebrew WiFi throttle supposedly cost under $50 USD to make and it dont look too shabby either. Heres the link to his wsebsite and pictures of the throttle which I think looks cool.